Author Archives: halbryan

Looking for Peace in the Midwest

Posted on July 25, 2008 by halbryan

Off I go, back to my annual home-away-from-home at AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Click the pic to read about how some people are joining us, and watch this space for updates and photos and textual self-aggrandizement. And, while you’re watching … Continue reading →

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Mike – We Have a Guest! We are NOT Going to Taco Bell!

Posted on May 22, 2008 by halbryan

“If you’re ever in the Bay Area, you should head out to the Nut Tree and say hello to Duncan Miller … he’s been around a long time … still flies, and has hangars full of interesting stuff. If you’re … Continue reading →

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Recent Feedback, Part 2: The Jaw-Droppingly Peculiar Kind

Posted on April 27, 2008 by halbryan

Note: Anything in the following that might remotely resemble an opinion is mine and mine alone, and reflects neither the stuff nor the things of the Microsoft Corporation, its subsidiaries, associates, customers, antitrust investigators, or anyone who ever has or … Continue reading →

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Recent Feedback, Part 1: The Good Kind

Posted on April 27, 2008 by halbryan

Not too long ago, I published a few million words on FSInsider about my role demonstrating Flight Simulator X to His Royal Highness Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, Prince of Belgium. For those of you that read me here but … Continue reading →

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Which American Incompetence Envies Afghanistan – Smallpox or Facebook?

Posted on March 20, 2008 by halbryan

I spend a lot of my workday these days tinkering with web stuff. I’m no stranger to the mysterious vagaries nor the vague mysteries of dynamic content roll-up queries and the like, nor am I an expert. I know just … Continue reading →

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Childhood’s End: Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917 – 2008)

Posted on March 19, 2008 by halbryan

Being called Hal, spending so much of my life intertwined with computers,  and having been born in 1968, the year that the film version of the now late Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in theaters, it … Continue reading →

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Buy This. Right Now.

Posted on February 1, 2008 by halbryan

Updated: See the YouTube trailer below! I have previously disclosed on this site, more than once, my habit of collecting DVDs, especially those that have anything, whatsoever, to do with flying. There is, apparently, a masochistic underpinning to this, because … Continue reading →

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Be Just Like John Travolta!

Posted on January 28, 2008 by halbryan

No, not Sweathog Travolta. Not Vincent Vega Travolta. Not even Battlefield Earth Travolta. No, in this case, you can be like Airliner Pilot Travolta thanks to the Interweb and this great and surprisingly high-res VR view of an A380 cockpit … Continue reading →

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Free Soup – 5,764 Kilometers That-a-Way

Posted on January 10, 2008 by halbryan

The latest Electric Moth, a regular email update from the de Havilland Moth Club in the UK, included the following invitation, something that is nearly as irresistible as it is British: Tiger Moths at CambridgeSaturday 26 January will be the … Continue reading →

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Sometimes, You Just Obey the Box

Posted on December 18, 2007 by halbryan

The other day, someone on the Flight Sim team sent around a screenshot of an early version of FS, side-by-side with a contemporary shot from Acceleration. This started a lot of us stumbling down amnesia lane, sending screenshots and other … Continue reading →

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